I am jim lehrer and i will be the moderator for this event. It is taking place in st. Louis, missouri. Three journalists will be asking questions to want. John masic of the boston clobe, ann compton and sandra van oker. We will follow a format agreed to by representatives of the clipton and bush campaigns. It contains no restrictions on the content or subject matter of the questions. Each candidate will have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The first question goes to mr. Perot. He will have two minutes to answer followed by rebuttals of one minute each by president clinton and then president bush. Gentlemen, good evening. The first topic tonight is what separates each of you from the other . Mr. Perot, what do you believe tonight is the single most important separating issue of this is . Campaign . The principle issue that separates me is that people came together on their own and put me on the ballot. I was not put on the ballot by either to have two parties. By any foreign
Hermine. It sounds like it was downgrade . It came across the coast as a hurricane now weakening to a Tropical Storm. Weather around here obviously is nice and cool to start off your morning. Right now temperatures mostly in the 50s outside. Jacket weather for the north bay. Then temperatures climb into the low to mid 80s. The weather quiet this morning. Kind of a different story this morning with your track report. With more on that heres anthony. I want to start you off with a wide view. Lots of green on the map. That denotes we have traffic moving without a problem. But we have a couple of spots that i want to point out. In fact, there is a car fire on 580 eastbound near ysabel avenue. You can see traffic not being effected but keep that in mind. Spectators may be slowing. Also, the carquinez bridge. Report of a brush fire. Its been put out but ill have more as the morning goes on. Back to you. Breaking news right now. We have multiple crews live at the Santa Clara County main jail
Candidate ross perot, governor bill clinton, the democratic not democratic nominee, and george bush, the republican nominee. I will be the moderator for this 90 minute event, which is taking place before naughty ands here in the f let a complex on the campus of Washington University in st. Louis, missouri. Three journalists will be asking questions. They are john of the boston globe, and competition an of abc news, and sander van ocher andcompton of abc news, sander that contains no restrictions on the content or subject matter of the questions. Up toandidate will have two minutes for a closing statement. The order of those as well as the questioning was determined by a drawing. The first question goes to mr. Perot. He will have two minutes to answer to be followed by a rebuttals of one minute each by governor clinton and then president bush. Good evening. The first topic tonight is what separates each of you from the other . Perot, what do you believe tonight is the single most import
Campus of Washington University in st. Louis, missouri. Three journalists will be asking questions tonight. They are john mashek of the boston globe, ann compton of abc news, and sander vanocur, a freelance journalist. We will follow a format agreed to by representatives of the clinton and bush campaigns. That agreement contains no restrictions on the content or subject matter of the questions. Each candidate will have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The order of those, as well as the questioning, was determined by a drawing. The first question goes to mr. Perot. He will have two minutes to answer, to be followed by rebuttals of one minute each from governor clinton and then president bush. Gentlemen, good evening. The first topic tonight is what separates each of you from the other. Mr. Perot, what do you believe tonight is the single most important separating issue of this campaign . Perot i think the principal that separates me is that 5 and a half Million People came tog
Free port, things have quieted down for you. You have light rain but theres still a chance of. More of the same minor coastal flooding. Most of the heavy rain is moving t and heade northward into connecticut. Youre getting down pours around stanford, richburg. Its more spotty in nature. Youre starting to see a break around madison and plainfield. There is more on the way. Even though the rain is moving north and out of the area, the back edge of the system will not move through until tomorrow morning. Theres a chance for more down pours overnight. Possibly even a few understorms. Wind gusts around 40 miles per hour. Weve seen much of that. The airport delays will continue. The coastal flooding could come along at high tide. Thats the for the the south facing cities. The higher elevations, there is a wind advisory until midnight for gusts up to 50 miles per hour. Ose winds kill continue for tonight. Ill tell you what that means in a few minutes. Back to you. Weather changes quickly. Cou